Are you pessimistic or optimistic?

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Do you generally regard the glass as half full or half empty? The funny thing with me is it depends on my emotional state. When I'm anxious, I'm pessimistic and when I'm calm I'm more optimistic about things. Overall I would have to say I see the glass as half empty. How about you?

I'm quite ecstatically happy 90% of the time. I've been asked before if I'm a member of a religious cult or just ret*d or doped up. I usually walk around with this big grin on my face and smile to people's dogs and sometimes laugh out loud at my thoughts.

at the same time I'm extremely realistic and very aware of things like the self destructive nature of human condition and that most people are idiots and that I'll probably never connect with anyone and that everything will one day die and rot LOL

I just couldn't care less though. I'm on a natural high most of the time but I wouldn't call it optimism, it's just me being a weirdo I guess.

so I wouldn't put myself in any of those two categories, I'm totally zen about things and that's just it.

The glass is always half full or just half a glass, and I am generally very optimistic.... but I do have pessimistic times.... mostly when I am feeling down...

Both.

The world is going to end.

And we will all live happily ever after.

Depends on how much I've had to drink.

It's possible that part of the reason why aspies tend to be so good at analytical process is because we suffer so much depression... There's a weird inverse relationship between depression and the ability to predict things -- it's even been measured in labs... People who are depressed are pretty accurate at judging their own abilities, while they overestimate the abilities of people around them. People who are happy have the opposite problem where they judge the abilities of others accurately but are overconfident about their own.

Pessimistic. I prefer to think of it as realism though, and for the most part the two positions are inseperable these days.

The truth is....there is no glass......

Guess I agree with Everchanging.

As for the glass, am I filling it up or drinking it down? That determines which it is. If I don't know, it's just "half a glass".

Both.

It would depend on the kind of day I am having, my mood, hormones

both. depends on any given context really.....

mostly optimistic.

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I used to be extremely pessimistic. Now, not nearly as much, but I'm still more of a pessimist.

Extremely pessimistic, or so I'm told.